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FOOD OF GODS AND STARVELINGS
The Selected Poems of Grace Stone Coates
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Paperback |
244 pages |
$15.95 |
ISBN: 0-9769684-0-1 |
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Book
Description
With the publication
of “Food
of Gods and Starvelings: The Selected Poems of Grace Stone
Coates”, Drumlummon Institute of Helena, Montana,
brings back into print the poetic works of a leading 20th-century
writer of the American West. Edited by Lee Rostad and Rick
Newby, the substantial collection showcases more than 200
of Coates’ “irresistible, poignant and authentic” poems.
During
her lifetime, Grace Stone Coates (1881-1976) published
two critically acclaimed collections of poems, “Mead
and Mangel-Wurzel”, and “Portulacas in the
Wheat”, and the novel, “Black Cherries”.
Twenty of her short stories were cited in Best American
Short Stories, and she was among the most widely published
American poets west of the Mississippi prior to World War
II. She served as assistant editor for the regional literary
journal, Frontier and Midland, of The University of Montana,
where she worked closely with legendary editor Harold G.
Merriam.
“Food
of Gods and Starvelings” contains the two collections
Coates published during her lifetime, plus more than seventy
uncollected poems drawn from literary journals and the poet’s
notebooks.
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About
the Authors
Co-editor
Lee Rostad is author of the award-winning biography,
Grace Stone Coates: Her Life in Letters (Riverbend, 2004)
and recipient of the Montana Governor’s Award in
the Humanities, and co-editor Rick Newby has edited many
books, including The New Montana Story: An Anthology
(Riverbend, 2003) and A Most Desperate Situation: Frontier
Adventures of a Young Scout, 1858-1864, by Walter Cooper
(illustrations by Charles M. Russell).
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Reviews
“Like a twentieth-century
Emily Dickinson, [Grace Stone Coates] writes of the world
around her from the small town of Martinsdale, Montana,
and her poetry is at once as sweeping and as precise
as the prairie she lived on. With startling imagery and
philosophical acuity, she explores the emotional landscape
between men and women, mothers and daughters, small-town
neighbors, and between a lonely woman and the landscape
she lives in. Her voice rings clear, her eye is sharp,
and her music is unerring.”
--Caroline
Patterson, editor of Montana Women Writers: A Geography
of the Heart |
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